"Don't confuse violence with discipline... big difference. You should know better."
As a poster here, you should know better than to offer insults to other posters, as you have done here.
However, truth is that teachers are NOT permitted to physically touch a child. That is the law.
I have no doubt the egg boy has brought shame to his parents and to the school. He is no hero and he will know it by now.
My much loved father sometimes used some smacks to reinforce his disapproval of something we had done wrong. None of us are anything other than upstanding members of our society. You see, I do understand that. My mother never believed in disciplining well after the event, so never said "wait until your father gets home". She told me that was both unfair on my father and ineffective as a tool for behavioural management. If she smacked, I can't even recall it.
If a teacher does what I once did, flopped a folder with two sheets of paper in it on a kid's head, while repeating for them to stop talking (the reinforcement) then expect to be called up to the Principal's office for a good roasting and possibly more serious consequences for that choice of responding. If a child is crying and you approach them and touch them on the hand while asking what is wrong, then that too is considered inappropriate and you could get into strife for that as well.
